mosiacmango

Email was invented in 1983.

It was revolutionary, the utter example of a "killer app" that had people and businesses running out to buy computers just to replace paper memos. You setup your mail server to hook into that brand new, stunning ecosystem of near instant communication from across the world.

Now there are 6,000,000,000 "killer" apps you can install in seconds from your pocket computer. I can hit "install" and be talking face to face with a stranger in Singapore in 30 seconds, all from easy, low effort walled gardens.

Federation was and is a reasonable way to host things, but comparing current systems to email is a misnomer. People dealt with federation because they had to. If gmail has existed in 1983, no one would have had their own federated email servers. Hell, AOL tried to choke the internet itself to death and almost succeeded in the early 90s because it was an "all in one" solution. They had aol only webpages and everything, including email. Its a twist of fate that they failed, mainly due to the onset of always on broadband, not because people didn't want things easy.

Make things easy, people will use it. They will only do hard if they have to.

I watched that once and can't make myself sit through it again, even for the memes.

Mans gotta eat.

World doesn't have to be just hustle and grind. The man can enjoy himself however he likes, especially if he's getting paid too.

Yes, they are protected by "qualified immunity," a supreme court invention that says that cops cannot be individually prosectuted when engaged in reasonable, legal acts. It also has a fun carve out that says that cops can do brutally, blatently wrong things as long as they don't "clearly" know they were wrong, I.e no one had been sued or arrested for doing that literal, specific thing.

Its a shit ruling, and why cops in the US are so brutal. Literally no personal consequences for their actions.

This cop was clearly agitated and took a simple, non threatening "shush" gesture as a reason to brutalize a 71 old, non violent man. He will not likely not be fired, but also won't face a lick of jail time for assualt. The likely soon to be dead mans family, who will lose their relative specically because of his actions, will make some number of millions in a few years from a lawsuit from the city that will admit no fault. The cop will go on brutalizing and murdering others needlessly.

Thats the norm for this, and Trump has promises to let cops get away with it more often.

YouTube you can skip ads with uBlock origin for the normal kind and sponserblock for the embed "ad read" kind the youtuber does.

Titan Quest is an older aRPG with mythological god vibes. Same folks who did grim dawn.

A sequel is also in the works.

Can you link the thread? Reddit search is still terrible.

They could do it by not uploading any of the data, or if they do, uploading it encrypted with the only key being on the user's device or a passcode.

Both are well established ways to secure data, but the company itself would not be able to interact with the data at all past storing it, so any features/revenue there would end.

"Free and open source software." It's an ethos that says that code should be free and open for people to use and improve as they see fit. The core of it is that if you modify any software that is FOSS, your software must also be FOSS. So overtime the software and what its used for improve, change, widen. Lucky for us, the movement has been ongoing for 50+ years, so it's a mature ethos whose benefits are everywhere. Most of the internet runs on FOSS. Lemmy itself is FOSS.

It doesn't necessarily mean an app is more private, but it does mean you can generally self host, as the commentor said. There isn't a profit motive with most FOSS, at least not at its core, so there is little desire to data harvest generally. There is also a heavy overlap between FOSS advocates and privacy advocates, so they tend to be more privacy conscious via local data storage or encryption.

From LAMF:

I have no idea what the article says, because it's paywalled. All I can read is that someone with a group of Israeli soccer fans was attacked.

This is not surprising, as Jewish soccer fans were chanted for the death of Arabs and violently ripped down other peoples property, which you called "being offensive."